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iguanaThis year literally started with Emily and I kissing ^_^. There was a great view of all the fireworks going off along the horizon from the top of Temple Hill at midnight, with Crayford Ness to the North and Canary Wharf to the West.
On New Years Day we went up to London to visit St James Park, and there happened to be a parade going on down The Mall and Whitehall. It was tipping down with rain but a quick stop at The Umbrella Shop (Boots) fixed that. St James Park was deserted as a result, and the squirrels were hungry. Emily managed to get one to climb up her leg for a hobnut. We went back again last weekend and I managed the same trick. Squirrels are awesome.
While stuck on a train thanks to a Network Rail cockup, I finished the V for Vendetta graphic novel, which is really rather good. The film did a good job of modernising and restructuring it for a movie, I think, and the storylines diverged enough to keep the graphic novel interesting. I've now started on Arthur C Clarke's Songs of Distant Earth, which is making for good reading so far.
On the 14th we went to Whitstable, a seaside town on the north Kent coast. We squeezed through Squeeze Gut Alley, went paddling in the sea (holycrapcold), then had a gorgeous lunch at a wonderfully cosy place on the high street called Samphire before walking down to the sea front again to watch the sun set and the stars come out. I have also been coveting a couple of houses I saw for sale (if only!).
Yesterday I went over to my brother's place in Gravesend, along with my parents, as he and his girlfriend had invited us over for dinner. Rabbits were petted and lasagne and white chocolate cheesecake were eaten. Again with the coveting of a full size house :)
I've also been discharged from the physiotherapist since I've been making (slow) progress and there's not really anything else they can teach me to do in one-on-one sessions like I've been having. So I have the advice to continue my daily exercises and motivations, gradually increase the amount I'm walking (and scale back if having trouble), and eventually ween myself off the knee straps I have to wear. I think overall it's been quite positive, and I did 6km yesterday with only some minor niggles. I was doing about twice that each weekend before the trouble started last autumn, and I did 20km in Kenilworth before Ayacon last year, which I suspect was probably the root cause of all this trouble, if not just ageing physiology.
On New Years Day we went up to London to visit St James Park, and there happened to be a parade going on down The Mall and Whitehall. It was tipping down with rain but a quick stop at The Umbrella Shop (Boots) fixed that. St James Park was deserted as a result, and the squirrels were hungry. Emily managed to get one to climb up her leg for a hobnut. We went back again last weekend and I managed the same trick. Squirrels are awesome.
While stuck on a train thanks to a Network Rail cockup, I finished the V for Vendetta graphic novel, which is really rather good. The film did a good job of modernising and restructuring it for a movie, I think, and the storylines diverged enough to keep the graphic novel interesting. I've now started on Arthur C Clarke's Songs of Distant Earth, which is making for good reading so far.
On the 14th we went to Whitstable, a seaside town on the north Kent coast. We squeezed through Squeeze Gut Alley, went paddling in the sea (holycrapcold), then had a gorgeous lunch at a wonderfully cosy place on the high street called Samphire before walking down to the sea front again to watch the sun set and the stars come out. I have also been coveting a couple of houses I saw for sale (if only!).
Yesterday I went over to my brother's place in Gravesend, along with my parents, as he and his girlfriend had invited us over for dinner. Rabbits were petted and lasagne and white chocolate cheesecake were eaten. Again with the coveting of a full size house :)
I've also been discharged from the physiotherapist since I've been making (slow) progress and there's not really anything else they can teach me to do in one-on-one sessions like I've been having. So I have the advice to continue my daily exercises and motivations, gradually increase the amount I'm walking (and scale back if having trouble), and eventually ween myself off the knee straps I have to wear. I think overall it's been quite positive, and I did 6km yesterday with only some minor niggles. I was doing about twice that each weekend before the trouble started last autumn, and I did 20km in Kenilworth before Ayacon last year, which I suspect was probably the root cause of all this trouble, if not just ageing physiology.
